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I'd like to see more 'blackness' from Hughton. More dazzling suitery and perhaps a big old chunky watch. And a cane Some dancing too. And singing. With his support staff doing backing in black face and white gloves. All old time classics. "Mammy!" Blaydon Races to CampTown Races can't be that far. It would transcend irony.

Murakami is the other one. I've lost count of the times people have tried to press one of his books on me. I haven't read any but I'm sure it's shit on account of so many twerps recommending it. I've been tempted too but have (rightly or wrongly) dismissed it as pretentious guff, despite not read a word. Ryu Murakami is alright though. Thank god there is another out there. Well done Sir! I'm sure we're both completely in the clear on this one.

I'd like to see more 'blackness' from Hughton. More dazzling suitery and perhaps a big old chunky watch. And a cane Some dancing too. And singing. Perhaps a backflip or two when we score and big old diamond on the pinky finger. Hughton should deffo get that hat.

Murakami is the other one. I've lost count of the times people have tried to press one of his books on me. I haven't read any but I'm sure it's shit on account of so many twerps recommending it.

Bill Bryson? That's the cernt. One of the best things about leaving Eng is not havng to endure watching people read those books on the train.

I'd like to see more 'blackness' from Hughton. More dazzling suitery and perhaps a big old chunky watch. And a cane Some dancing too. And singing. With his support staff doing backing in black face and white gloves. All old time classics. You go too far Sir!

I'd like to see more 'blackness' from Hughton. More dazzling suitery and perhaps a big old chunky watch. And a cane Some dancing too. And singing. Perhaps a backflip or two when we score and big old diamond on the pinky finger.

Teams who sit are going to be a problem at home, as we don't really have the guile to create enough.

Strachan was highly regarded a few years back, not sure what happenned to him.

I'd like to see more 'blackness' from Hughton. More dazzling suitery and perhaps a big old chunky watch.

Anything by that travel writer, faux light American schlock who is really popular but I forget his name.

I have come up against a Muslim (Turkish) core in the PTA in my fight to increase Eng from 2hrs a week to 3. They do Turkish for 4 hrs ffs! It is testing my well rounded approach and causing friction with my innate sense of fair play. The gloves might have to come off.

I don't like it but you can't argue with supply and demand. He gets paid that much because they think he's worth the investment. He's just top of the food chain. Even £10k a week is obscene if you're relating it to what a pensioner gets. It's more the fact he's basically been rewarded for spitting his dummy out by getting a huge increase. Not the first or last player to do it although the nature of it, with the press statements etc. and the profile of the player made it out of the ordinary and it does somehow seem worse when so many people are being told they don't have a job any more. The game never seemed further away from its supposed core support. The new rules regarding debt and turnover should help, but not sure how they will be applied. What's going on at Man C and what happened at Chelsea a couple of years ago have warped the game and nobody has benifited apart from the greedy players and agents.

I like the community tax idea. I'd say 5% goes into the local community once a player is earning over 25k a week or summink.

Agreed. But I don't think he got that much more. Wenger's angle was that red nose making it public was a sign that they were prepared to let him go and were alerting the world etc...Since the England fiasco in the summer I have given up what little respect I had for him as a player who was once competitive and fresh.

People can bang on about the transfer system being a false economy, and how it should be bought into line to follow the EU-Line [accepted employment law affecting freedom of movement], but it's exclusive. The transfer market [and the trading of employees, whose respective talents have been nurtured by their clubs] is hard currency for all clubs, and the lifeline for feeder clubs. As Holloway infers, the old system was 99.99% fair. The case of Marc Bosman [his club behaving like pricks and not paying him, while still being the custodians of his registration papers] was an isolated one, and it certainly didn't warrant the transfer system [where player/agent power has become a disproportionate entity by itself] being turned on its head. The greatest irony being that the football landscape was forever & significantly changed by a player of limited ability. ..and the EU and its cosseted middle European dandruff ridden fat pink necked, flemish, dour Brusels types are thick and arrogant. Employment law as in France (the yardstick of civilisation apparently) means you can't fire a fucking secretary who's late three times a week without giving her 3 warnings and getting a letter from a beuracrat and 6 hearing, and 5 fake homely coffee chats and finally a letter from a wine addled judge.

Tiote is the key.

We need to stick to two upfront against all sides bar the top 3/4. Give us a chance to win games.

Caaaaaaaarooooooooolllllllllllllahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

0-3. Tiote is going to have to get through a load of work in the middle. Guti and Barton must tuck in when we don't have the ball. Feeling upbeat.

Fully behind the French protestors. Need to stop this kind of thing in its tracks.

He'd be all WAGed up with part-time 'models' if he was in London. Looks like he's using a zoo as a dating service...

Christ no wonder he hasn't scored for a while.

You mean Nolan will lose his special status?

Aren't they fiddling with the retirement age in the UK?